Woods, Hannah2017-05-302017-05-30http://hdl.handle.net/2374.MIA/6120One in four women report experiences of lifetime sexual victimization (LSV), which includes unwanted sexual experiences in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood (Fisher, Cullen, & Turner, 2000). Furthermore, college-aged women are at increased risk for sexual victimization compared to other developmental periods (Sinozich & Langton, 2014). Multiple studies have demonstrated that child sexual abuse increases risk for developing alexithymia, an emotion regulation deficit characterized by difficulties identifying and describing emotions...CC0 1.0 Universalhttp://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/Lifetime sexual violence and alexithymia: the meditating role of dissociation, thought suppression, and shameOther